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Man With A Gun

Man With A Gun

There is a horror implicit in the stick-figure, “Man with a Gun,” from the hobo alphabet.  Its triangle with outstretched arms hints at a fleein...
Art Etching Hobo Hobo Alphabet War on Drugs
The Blue Wound

The Blue Wound

After the Civil War, a great many of the men honored for valor could not read or write.  Less than half of Americans were actually literate.  A ...
Art Etching Hobo Hobo Alphabet
Janky Ohio

Janky Ohio

In the Shreve High football stadium,I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benw...
Art Hobo Ohio
The Devil’s Moth

The Devil’s Moth

I recently gave up my studio. I’ve been there, on North Damen, for 17 years.  I decided after watching some artists that I admire getting stuck...
Art Firecat Hobo Studio
Cannery Row

Cannery Row

“Cannery Row in Monterrey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” John St...
Art Hobo
The Star Fish

The Star Fish

I’m a mile and a half above sea-level in Snowmass, Colorado, about five miles from Aspen; home of much Botox, spray-on tans and cut-rate tit-jobs...
Hobo
Ohio Blue Match Girl

Ohio Blue Match Girl

  When I was a kid, I did four months in Boy Scouts.  It cured me of camping.   The sleeping outside in a tent in the rain with another guy was ...
Art Girl Hobo Matches
The Bruised Village

The Bruised Village

I live in Ukrainian village in Chicago.  A great many of my neighbors don’t even speak English.  They like being among themselves. They are susp...
Art Hobo Hobo Alphabet
The Red Rain

The Red Rain

I just finished my run of performances of This Train. It was fun to be back on a stage again and also edifying to learn more about the hobo alph...
Art Hobo Hobo Alphabet
The Horse Star (For Crazy Horse)

The Horse Star (For Crazy Horse)

All through the Badlands there are reminders of who used to own this land.  There are  hay-colored grasses and scrub trees standing silently lik...
Badlands Crazy Horse Hobo Sioux
Girl of the Emerald Sky

Girl of the Emerald Sky

It is that time of year again.  Miami has allowed the circus of mental defectives that comprise the art world to pitch its tent on South-Beach. ...
Hobo
Girl of the Pachinko Garden

Girl of the Pachinko Garden

In Tokyo, particularly in Roppongi and Sinjuku, there are Pachinko parlors everywhere.  They are kind of like the American equivalent of slot ma...
Hobo